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Conversations with George Bush : Beyond Polls and Partisanship
Martha B. Mattia
Hardcover - $41.95
In an effort to reconcile the patriotic feelings stirred by 9/11 with the alienation of her expatriate upbringing, Martha Boone Mattia embarked on an odyssey?to learn about her country by looking at it through others? eyes. Mattia set out to probe th ...
A Mourning Dove Sings My Song
Charley Pierce
Paperback - $35.95
What Happened To The Country Culture Of What Some People Now Call "The Greatest Generation"?
These pages cover a century, but focus on the years 1931 to 1966, a time of tumultuous, unprecedented change-social, cultural, and technological. The ta ...
American Artifacts : Essays in Material Culture
Jules David Prown
Paperback - $51.95
In the distinguished, now decades-long history of Material Culture Studies, American Artifacts represents the first compilation of interpretive essays to examine a wide range of ordinary objects such as a teapot, card table, cigarette lighter, and te ...
The American Dream : Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
Dan Rather
Paperback - $21.95
The bestselling author and award-winning TV journalist crosses the nation to find everyman's version of the universal ideal--the American dream.
Eric Sloane's ABCs of Early Americana : A Sketchbook of Inventions, Curiosities, and Lore
Eric Sloane
Paperback - $21.95
8-1/2 x 11 64 pgs approx. 187 b&w illustrations
Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts? : In Search of America's Great Barbershops
Vince Staten
Paperback - $24.95
Waste and Want : A Social History of Trash
Susan Strasser
Paperback - $27.95
An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.
Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the ...
In the Company of Books : Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarah Wadsworth
Paperback - $54.95
A vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communit ...